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E.J. Anosike brings exactly what Tennessee was missing last year

In the college basketball landscape, most programs are often completed thanks to transfer players. All the mid-majors we’ve come to know and love have a tendency to pull junior college transfers up into the ranks of division I basketball. That’s what they subsist on and that’s often why we see some of those programs be competitive in March.

The Tennessee Volunteers, despite climbing on the recruiting trail, may still need a piece or two from outside the program in order to round out the roster and become the top competition in the SEC. With a need to be filled, head coach Rick Barnes went into the frosty northeast to pluck a need from Sacred Heart University, E.